“2 is quicker than 3,

but slower than 1.”

That’s because 1 is simply present, hence prior to speed.

Ockham’s razor is here used on Ockham’s original razor definition, to wit, “No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary”, i.e. the law of parsimony, thus sharpening it to a point and disproving it.

The Ockham’s razor technique, to wit. abbreviation, was used (but not declared a truth finding method) by the Sythian (i.e. Sakamuni) Buddha, approx. 500 BC, then later by Nagarjuna, that Brahmin turned seriously corrupt Buddhist in approx. the 2^nd to 4^th century to create false ‘universals’, thereby helping to establish the Mahayana and ‘Buddha’ as universal principle. Both Democritus and Pyrrho used the technique, to wit, abstraction of the inessential, hence abbreviation to gain an edge.

Note: Ockham’s razor (to wit, context reduction) does not prove truth. It merely makes truth harder to uncover. Non-falsification proves truth, at least temporarily.

Ockham, a true religious fanatic (from the Latin fana, of a temple, ‘inspired by a god’, the earliest sense of the noun being: a religious madman) insisted on parsimony in proof but did not himself use it. Highly intelligent, learned and devious, like his predecessor Duns Scotus, he wrote endless books filled with complex albeit trivial verbal devices to prove non-verifiable and non-falsifiable propositions, i.e. beliefs. He died, excommunicated and forgotten, 1347 in Munich, Bavaria.

P.S. “1² is real”, meaning: 1² (read: one squared) defines a quantum of realness. For 1 (i.e. one) substitute q or c.